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PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 22
Engagement of APS employees
- (1)
- An Agency Head, on behalf of the Commonwealth, may engage persons as
employees for the purposes of the Agency.
- (2)
- The engagement of an APS employee (including an engagement under section
72) must be:
- (a)
- as an ongoing APS employee; or
- (b)
- for a specified term or for the duration of a specified task; or
- (c)
- for duties that are irregular or intermittent.
- (3)
- The usual basis for engagement is as an ongoing APS employee.
- (4)
- The regulations may limit the circumstances in which persons may be
engaged as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) or (c).
- (5)
- An engagement for a specified term may be extended, subject to any
limitations prescribed by the regulations.
- (6)
- The engagement of an APS employee (including an engagement under section
72) may be made subject to conditions notified to the employee, including
conditions dealing with any of the following matters:
- (a)
- probation;
- (b)
- citizenship;
- (c)
- formal qualifications;
- (d)
- security and character clearances;
- (e)
- health clearances.
- (7)
- Subsection (6) does not, by implication, limit the conditions that may be
applied to the engagement of an APS employee.
- (8)
- An Agency Head must not engage, as an APS employee, a person who is not an
Australian citizen, unless the Agency Head considers it appropriate to do so.
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